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• Including Forestry in an Emissions Trading Scheme: Lessons from New Zealand
  August, 2017
  New Zealand is the first, and still the only, country to include forest landowners as full and, in some cases, mandatory participants in a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading scheme…
• Quality Assurance of NZ Wood Products Moves to New Level
  August, 2017
  New Zealand wood products already undergo strict and independent, third-party scrutiny to ensure that they comply with the NZ Building Code.  All NZ wood products are made to standards and…
• New national standard for plantation forestry
  August, 2017
  A new nationwide set of environmental rules for managing New Zealand’s 1.7 million hectares of plantation forestry will better protect the environment and deliver significant savings in compliance costs, Minister…
• National Environmental Standard a step up and forward for plantation forestry
  August, 2017
  Forest Owners say the introduction of a National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry is vitally needed for better environmental outcomes. The government has just released the NES, to bring in…
• Emission Trading Scheme Imbalance Will Cost New Zealanders.
  August, 2017
  Recent updates to the Government’s Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) are a mixed bag according to sources in the New Zealand Forestry industry. Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett announced a raft…
• Biosecurity: Obtaining social licence to operate case study – gypsy moth eradication programme, British Columbia, Canada
  July, 2017
  Executive summary The purpose of this report is to present findings from a biosecurity visit to British Columbia, Canada in May 2017 by a delegation consisting of industry, government, and…
• ETS review may reduce forest planting while foresters wait for certainty
  July, 2017
  Forest owners and wood processors say they appreciate the government needs to fine tune the Emissions Trading Scheme, but they believe present uncertainty in the ETS might lead to a…
• Wilding conifer work plan announced
  July, 2017
  Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy and Conservation Minister Maggie Barry have announced the Government will control the spread of wilding conifers over an additional five priority areas this year in…
• Biosecurity Levy: Consultation
  July, 2017
  Consultation with the New Zealand Plantation Forest industry has begun on the proposal for a Biosecurity Levy to allow the sector to meet the response costs of a biological incursion under…
• Federated Farmers back FOA on Local Government charges for NES inspections
  July, 2017
  Federated Farmers, representing the owners of what they estimate is 274,292 hectares of forests on farmland in New Zealand, have backed FOA objections to proposed local government charges for monitoring…
• FOA Rare Species Website operational
  July, 2017
  The new FOA rare species website is now live at http://rarespecies.nzfoa.org.nz The website is a revamp of a previous website designed to give forest managers the tools to manage and…
• Govt now needs to focus on its Energy Efficiency Strategy
  June, 2017
  The Bioenergy Association says it’s pleased the Government’s refresh of the New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (NZEECS) focuses on the heat and transport opportunities available across New Zealand…
• Primary Sector Science Roadmap ‘not all about food’
  June, 2017
  The just released Primary Sector Science Roadmap features a pine tree nursery on its front cover.  The Forest Owners Association says this is a clear signal that the primary sector…
• Research presentations from 2017 GCFF conference
  June, 2017
  The 2017 Growing Confidence in Forestry’s Future (GCFF) research programme conference was held in late March, and all presentations from this event are now available. Research to improve the precision…
• Budget fails to plan for forest future
  May, 2017
  Forest Owners Association President Peter Clark says the Budget is money for urban New Zealanders’ immediate concerns, and he says it fails to provide and prepare for the scale of…
• No need for delay in forest planting
  May, 2017
  Forest owners are saying the government needs to get extra forest planting under way and not wait until next year for a report to be presented on climate change. The…
• Forest Owners want Vivid Economics Report implemented
  March, 2017
  The Forest Owners Association says policy makers must decide soon on which option to adopt from the just released Vivid report recommending various scenarios for making New Zealand carbon neutral.…
• New Zealand forest industry important nationally, regionally and environmentally – NZIER Report
  March, 2017
  A report on the plantation forest industry has highlighted its value to national and regional economies, as well as forestry's beneficial effect on New Zealand's ecology. The NZIER Report was…
• Forest Owners urge farmers to plant more trees
  February, 2017
  Forest Owners say the new Federated Farmers' policy on climate change is a major step to help farmers understand trees are not an alternative to farming, but rather trees are…
• Timber Harvesting in New Zealand: A guide for Small Scale Forest Landowners
  February, 2017
  This information resource has been produced by NZFFA with growers levy funding and is the first in a series of web-based information pages to be produced for growers. Timber Harvesting…
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